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What we’re expecting from the state’s November Budget Forecast - Minnesota Budget Project On December 4, 2025, we’ll all get an important look at how the state of Minnesota is being affected by federal policy actions and their economic impact.

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The drumbeat can't stop. Congress must extend the expanded health tax credits, install guardrails to stop the President from unilaterally undoing final appropriations agreements, & pass funding legislation that protects housing for formerly homeless folks & protects food asst.

Live: Top city leaders fight to hold on to their jobs in contentious local races In the Twin Cities, two incumbent mayors are battling challengers in races dominated by debates over public safety, housing and downtown revitalization.

Minneapolis Council member Aisha Chughtai wins re-election with 59% of the vote in Ward 10 with all precincts reporting. She beat challenger Lydia Millard, 6,358 votes to 4,011.

Chicago residents march in defiance of Trump threats Thousands marched through the streets of Chicago Saturday protesting President Donald Trump's promised immigration and law enforcement operations in the city.

apnews.com/video/chicag... residents march in defiance of Trump threats

Just to be clear, Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier is not holding some kind of sit-in protest. She is literally locked in the State Capitol against her will.

Many horrors of the OBBB will soon be felt—if not understood or properly credited—and this is going to be one of the most horrific.

Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out

Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut

Kicks 10 million off health insurance

Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut

Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts

there should be a guerilla movement to sticker plaques and the like with QR codes that lead to the information Trump administration is trying to memory hole

Georgia shows rough road ahead for states as Medicaid work requirements loom Trump signed legislation that requires many Medicaid recipients to prove they're working to qualify for coverage. Georgia's program shows they can be costly.

A model for the nation? I don’t think so.

As I note in article below Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement, now mandated in all states by Trump’s new budget bill, has been a shocking waste of taxpayer $$ —
generating corporate profit by keeping people out of coverage.

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10 Crazy Comparisons Showing How Much Trump and Congress Just Cut Taxes for the Rich $117 billion is a big number, so we thought it could use a little context.

$117 billion is a big number, so we thought it could use a little context.
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Ok everybody remain calm. Plague has never gone away, it’s not uncommon among small animals in the western US and California. There are a few cases in humans here and there every year. This is sad but not cause for panic or concern.

Link to plague cases and prevalence every year in next posts 🧵

Phone Bank to Save Medicaid! · MoveOn Congress will soon vote on whether to advance a budget resolution that would take away nearly a trillion dollars of support and assistance from everyday people, including the largest proposed cuts to ...

I'm attending MoveOn's event, “Phone Bank to Save Medicaid!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

Republican senators have been racing to pass their bill before people learn about these numbers.
But at some point Americans are going to notice anyway. Including the ~half of Medicaid recipients who voted for Trump.

That coverage has been non existent.

Byrd Bath Violations Continue to Roll in on Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill” | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget The Official U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget

The parliamentarian has ruled that increased federal Medicaid payments for Alaska and Hawaii violate the Byrd rule. Also increased Medicare rates for outpatient hospitals in those states.
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Senate Republicans Can Still Abandon Disastrous, Rushed Reconciliation Bill | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The Senate is barreling toward a vote on a still-not-finished bill that would take away health coverage and food assistance from millions of people who need it, raise families’ costs, and make a large...

The Senate is racing to pass “a stand alone in history—a reconciliation bill that drives up poverty and the number of people uninsured, while increasing deficits and debt.”
@centeronbudget.bsky.social
How many GOP Senators who will vote for it think this is a good idea?
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Republicans Lavish Alaska With Benefits in Policy Bill, Grasping for a Key Vote

GOP buying Murkowski’s vote. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/u...

The latest version makes worse the harsh provision that takes coverage away from #Medicaid expansion enrollees who don’t meet a work requirement, exempting only parents w/ kids over age 13 (vs. 14 in the original Sen. bill). Similar House provision exempted all expansion parents.

Senate Republicans Can Still Abandon Disastrous, Rushed Reconciliation Bill | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The Senate is barreling toward a vote on a still-not-finished bill that would take away health coverage and food assistance from millions of people who need it, raise families’ costs, and make a large...

Sen. R leaders tinkered w/ some provisions as they rush to vote on the reconciliation bill but its harm remains: millions would lose coverage, access to needed care & accrue medical debt, leading to more avoidable deaths, uncompensated care & rural hospital closures. www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

BREAKING: I will object to Republicans moving forward on their Big, Ugly Bill without reading it on the Senate floor

Republicans won’t tell America what’s in the bill

So Democrats are forcing it to be read start to finish on the floor

We will be here all night if that’s what it takes to read it

The latest Senate Republican plan retains a deeply harmful provision that tramples over state rights’ to make decisions about how to use their own funds to ensure their state residents can access comprehensive health coverage.

A stack on 9 blue and pink buttons are spread out, some stacked on top of each other. Design on all buttons are the same. White text on all buttons read "Won't be erased". Next to this text, a tree extending its arms to the sky, with brightly colored, star shapes leaves.

The Stonewall Rebellion, led by queer and trans people of color, fights back against a police raid in reaction to years of harassment and oppression. Propels the Gay Rights Movement. New York City. 1969.

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Opinion | Our State Cannot Survive This Bill

Alaska lawmakers nail how harmful to states this bill being rushed through Congress would be: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/o...

Reminder: Trump plans on using these Medicaid cuts to fund his Border Wall.

‘Look my child in the eye’: Parent confronts GOP over Medicaid cuts Elena Hung, co-founder of Little Lobbyists, returned to Capitol Hill eight years after her first visit with the same mission: to fight Medicaid cuts that would directly harm medically complex children...

Listen to @ElenaHung.bsky.social @LittleLobbyists.com Republican cuts to Medicaid will hurt families across the nation.
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Awful. As @peterbeinart.bsky.social notes, neither @schumer.senate.gov nor @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social have signed on to requiring Trump to get cong authorization for war with Iran.

As I argued (see below) there should be a bipartisan coalition here. Where is it?

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...

You thought it was bad that Republicans were attacking school lunches to give tax breaks to billionaires?

They've also hidden private school vouchers in the bill.

So not only will public school kids go hungry, their schools will see resources siphoned off for private schools.

Mourners mark the life and death of Melissa and Mark Hortman with candlelight, music and silence • Minnesota Reformer As they made their way out, many old friends seemed to be catching up, just as Hortman would have wanted.

Mourners mark the life and death of Melissa and Mark Hortman with candlelight, music and silence minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/19/m...

Minnesota showed up for Speaker Melissa Hortman and Mark and their family. Was a beautiful summer evening gathering, remembering what we're fighting for.

Trump’s Reverse Robin Hood Agenda Hits Home Stretch The Big Beautiful Bill will benefit the rich and hurt the poor, while reducing economic growth and causing mass death. Other than that, it’s perfect.

Extremely clear explanation of what’s at stake for regular people with the bill being shoved through Congress.